engrave

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(ĕn-grāv') pronunciation
tr.v., -graved, -grav·ing, -graves.
  1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy.
  2. To carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into: engraved the silver watch with my monogram.
    1. To carve, cut, or etch into a block or surface used for printing.
    2. To print from a block or plate made by such a process.
  3. To impress deeply as if by carving or etching: The experience was engraved into his memory.
engraver en·grav'er n.

Cut, etch, or incise figures, letters, drawings, or other devices on a metal surface for personalizing, for decoration, or for reproduction by a printing process.

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verb

  1. To cut (a design or inscription) into a hard surface, especially for printing: carve, etch, grave3, incise. See marks.
  2. To produce a deep impression of: etch, fix, grave3, impress, imprint, inscribe, stamp. See marks.

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IN BRIEF: To carve or etch letters or designs on.

pronunciation There is no The End to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. — Mirabel Osler.

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  • Graphic Arts - engrave: (vb) produce image or design on printing plate by scratching it with a sharp tool


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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - gravere, præge, indgravere, indprente

Nederlands (Dutch)
graveren, griffen, ingraveren (ook b.v. in het geheugen), een gravure afdruk maken

Français (French)
v. tr. - graver, (Typ) graver au burin, (fig) graver, empreindre

Deutsch (German)
v. - eingravieren

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - χαράσσω, εγχαράσσω (κν. σκαλίζω)

Italiano (Italian)
scolpire

Português (Portuguese)
v. - gravar, esculpir, estampar

Русский (Russian)
запечатлевать в памяти, гравировать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - grabar, tallar, imprimir

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - gravera, inrista

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
刻上, 铭记, 雕刻

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 刻上, 銘記, 雕刻

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 조각하다, 명심하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 刻み込む, 彫る, 深く刻む

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يطبع في الذهن, ينقش‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮חרת, גילף, חקק‬


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